Add Debian/Ubuntu package support

[melroy89]

Copy over the debian folder from: https://github.com/mbudde/ledger/tree/debian/debian (no longer maintaining his PPA).

Allow you to easily build and/or publish deb packages!

Regards,
Melroy van den Berg

[tbm]

Personally I'm not too keen on adding Linux distro packaging code to upstream code, but that my just be my view as a Debian person (in the Debian world we think the distros are the place for that - and fwiw ledger is in Debian packaged by @bremner).

I'd be curious what other people think.

Also, if this is merged, who is volunteering to maintain it? We can't merge code without someone willing to maintain.

[melroy89]

Actually there is alternative way of doing this. Which is leveraging the cmake build system. Cmake makes it possible to also generate packages on various distros. Incl. Deb files.

[melroy89]

I'm leveraging the CMake build system in my LibreWeb project to help me build packages for various distros: https://gitlab.melroy.org/libreweb/libreweb-browser/-/blob/main/cmake/Packaging.cmake